The major exhibition Learning from Japan at the Design Museum Denmark in Copenhagen has  both the museum’s world-class Japanese collection on show as well as Danish architecture, handicrafts, design, and graphic art made by Danish designers who were inspired by Japan. If you visit you will have an opportunity to explore the symbolic universe of Japanese art and learn how, over the years, Japan has been a significant source of inspiration for Danish crafts and design.

The expo's visual identity, designed by Studio Claus Due, is a nice example of how Japanase and Danish design can collide.

From the very start, the Danmark Design Museum devoted its efforts to collecting Japanese art by way of inspiration for Danish art and industry. In the decades around the turn of the 20th century, the finest Japanese applied art gave a conspicuous boost to Danish arts and crafts. This fascination continued throughout the 20th century, and today the connection between Japanese and Danish design is particularly alive.

Learning from Japan will present the museum’s impressive Japanese collection alongside Japanese-inspired Danish arts and crafts, design, architecture and graphics. The Museum’s various material groups will all be part of the exhibition, including objects that have only rarely been on display. This comprehensive exhibition will deal with topics such as natural motifs in Japanese art; processes and materials; architecture and interior design; fashion and lighting; furniture and tableware. All were engendered by the encounter with Japanese art and crafts, but are now an integral part of Danish design.

'Learning from Japan' runs trough 30.06.18 at the Denmark Design Museum in Copenhagen

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